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Home Health Example
• No actual home health therapy is provided. The patient is asked
to sign forms that verify a nurse or staff showed up at her home
and provided services.
• To justify charging for a nurse or staff, a fraudulent physician who
is not the beneficiary’s primary doctor may falsely certify that the
beneficiary is an insulin-dependent diabetic and cannot inject
himself.
• Unscrupulous physicians may also falsely certify that a beneficiary
is home bound. In exchange, the beneficiary will be offered cash
on a monthly basis or provided a home health aide that only
prepares meals or cleans.
• Better, same, or worse?